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Moonta-Wallaroo region - South Australian Exploration Initiative. Prospectivity re-assessment and GIS data package (compiled 1994-1995).
To promote renewed regional exploration of the northern Yorke Peninsula using modern techniques and concepts, MESA as part of the SAEI programme has prepared a GIS-based data package, which incorporates a study of all available drillcore and a...-
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RB 55/00006;Amdel 00126 Accessory minerals of South Australian granites.
The purpose of the work described was to compare and contrast the petrography, accessory minerals, and absolute ages of 25 granitic and allied rock samples collected from widely scattered localities in South Australia. The processes that are...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1961
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RB 97/00051 Poona copper mine, Moonta, South Australia - Investigation of alteration mineralogy using short-wave infrared analysis.
The Poona Copper Mine on northern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, was worked from 1988-92 on an extension of the original Poona lode, a narrow, shear-hosted copper sulphide vein deposit in Moonta Porphyry of Mesoproterozoic age. The orebody is...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1997
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RB 91/00066 Major South Australian gold deposits. Summaries.
This report summarizes information on 10 South Australian mineral deposits with individual aggregate gold resources and/or historic production of 1 tonne or more. By far the largest is the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, with a measured and indicated...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1991
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RB 92/00060 Soil Air CO2/O2 Project. Progress report 2, Moonta district.
The rationale of utilising soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements as a guide to oxidising sulphide is that sulphide oxidation in the presence of water and oxygen will produce sulphuric acid, which in turn will attack any carbonates present to...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1992
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Moonta - Wallaroo area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal, for the period 13/3/1988 to 17/11/1996.
Following the acquisition of EL 1394 by Moonta Mining NL from Western Mining Corporation in March 1988, all data which had been generated until that date were released in September 1988 as part of the Moonta-Wallaroo Exploration Data Package (Env...-
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Port Broughton. Progress reports, annual reports, technical reports, and final report to licence expiry/ surrender, for the period 15/7/1991 to 19/9/2001.
Exploration targetted Roxby Downs style and Ernest Henry style copper-gold mineralisation in an area of intensely magnetic, concealed Proterozoic metasedimentary and intrusive igneous basement terrain, characterised by complex regional geophysical...-
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Published: 12 Dec 1900
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Moonta - Wallaroo district, Gawler Block, South Australia. A review of the geology, ore deposits and untested potential of EL 544.
The aim of this consultant's economic geological review was to ascertain whether any now obvious but still untested targets remained in the Wallaroo - Moonta mining area after 20 years of intensive exploration. WEST DOORA - VULCAN: This line of...-
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Published: 15 Dec 1980
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Moonta - Wallaroo mining area investigations, central Yorke Peninsula. Partial surrender report for the period 1/9/1960 to 9/6/1977, for a sector of Exploration Licence 249.
Exploration for buried metallic minerals carried out over seventeen years on northern and central Yorke Peninsula included the acquisition of ground magnetic, IP and electrosounding surveys, extensive soil geochemical sampling, drilling of 1341 auger...-
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Published: 31 Jul 1977
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Moonta-Wallaroo Joint Venture. History of exploration activities.
The Moonta project was initiated in 1959 and has been worked as a joint venture since the early 1960s. A large body of geological information has been accumulated, with factual input given by data obtained from geochemical exploratory drilling of ~...-
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Moonta [Joint Venture] area. Progress reports to licence expiry/renewal. for the period 1/9/1960 to 31/8/1969.
TARGET: Extensions to known mineralisation, concealed beneath shallow cover. EXPLORATION: - Acquisition of reconnaissance and detailed ground magnetic surveys and frequency domain, electrode array IP surveys (9000 line km); - Exploration of the...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (the Moonta Project). Annual reports for the period 12/4/2008 to 11/4/2018.
During the 2008-2009 project reporting year (Year 13), Adelaide Resources Limited continued to review all of the past exploration in the Moonta region. This disclosed 190 surface gold anomalies that the company thought warranted further consideration,...-
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Published: 10 Jun 1918
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RB 2020/00015 Reconnaissance zircon U-Pb geochronology of the southeastern Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia.
The eastern Gawler Craton is the location of the Olympic Cu-Au Province, a world-class metallogenic province known for iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena (Skirrow et al., 2007;...-
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Published: 01 Aug 2020
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RB 96/00046 Metasomatites, magmatites, metasediments and metavolcanics : the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic geology of the Moonta - Wallaroo Cu-Au district. Geological Society of Australia, SA Division. Field excursion, 30-31 March 1996.
Rock alteration to strata on the northern Yorke Peninsula, which appears to have been caused by an event which spanned the Palaeo-Mesoproterozoic boundary (~1600 Ma), was responsible for emplacing much of the mineralisation found in the...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1996
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Bull 055 A geochronological framework for the Gawler Craton, South Australia
This bulletin contains geochronological data and interpretations from the Gawler Craton of South Australia that have been completed by Mark Fanning of The Australian National University, by Geological Survey of South Australia personnel, and by...-
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RB 73/00008 Geological survey, Torrens Hinge Zone Project, Bute region. Report no. 1.
This report outlines the history and concept of the Torrens Hinge Zone project. An account is given of the regional geology, geophysics, geochronology and stratigraphic drilling in the Bute region and adjoining areas of northern Yorke Peninsula. An...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1973
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[ The Moonta - Wallaroo mining district, 1859-1923 ]. Proceedings of the AMHA 12th Annual Conference, Kadina, South Australia, 5-10 July 2006.
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Whiting. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 15/2/2010 to 14/2/2014.
A number of small, disjoint parcels of available exploration ground in the Moonta-Wallaroo district were taken up by Minotaur early in 2010 to assess their basement IOCG mineralisation potential. A preliminary review done by Minotaur of historic...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1914
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Anna Villa (part of the Alford Project). Annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 20/6/2013 to 16/6/2016.
An area on northern Yorke Peninsula comprising five semicontiguous sub-blocks which are centred ~23 south-southeast of Moonta has been explored for possible buried economic IOCG type mineralisation which could have formed within Palaeoproterozoic or...-
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Published: 19 Aug 1916
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Moonta - Wallaroo area (where licence is subject in part to the Moonta Porphyry Joint Venture). Annual reports for the period 24/12/1996 to 11/4/2008. [ Index Part 2 of 2 ].
When Phelps Dodge began managing exploration on EL 2885 in mid-2002, its focus was on defining structurally-controlled magnetic targets that had remained untested, but which could host significant sized deposits of Olympic Dam or Ernest Henry type...-
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